Support package to fund 14,000 higher education places

Minister for Higher Education Simon Harris is due to announce funding of €30 million to support part-time or post-graduate places.

Last July the Government announced a jobs stimulus package and part of the focus was upskilling workers worst-hit by the restrictions aimed at containing the coronavirus. As part of that, the funding package to be announced will seek to ease the financial burden of those seeking training or education.These are short and focused and can be done remotely or part-time, in order to allow people to gain skills without taking time out of the labour market.These will be available on 200 courses across 23 colleges and higher education institutions, covering a range of skills including sciences, engineering, ICT, health and tourism and hospitality.

The funding will be open to those returning to the workforce, already in employment or recent graduates. Those in receipt of social welfare payments, including the Pandemic Unemployment Payment, will be eligible to undertake courses free of charge.

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All well & good SimonHarrisTD but: ⬆️ students= increased demand for library resources/services ✅ ebooks /e resources to support remote learning during COVID19 are ⬆️expensive ✅ budget cuts (3% year on year for 3yrs) =cancellations of resources already held 🙄UCDLibrary

SimonHarrisTD Where will the application be available?

Excellent 😳 sweet mother of heaven some folk swallow any auld shite... what about the thousands & thousands of college students that got no break whatsoever this year having to pay FULL fees for what are basically open university courses !

I do wonder where all this money is coming from! Oh wait forgot the tax payers, is the bundle money from the EU piggy bank. I have praise for this government, we need another election remove these clowns from the government.

ingridmileyRTE Pity that anyone who already has a degree cannot avail of this if they're on social welfare.. be cut off straight away. Basically can't do a level 5 course if you have a degree & said degree was done over 8 years ago. Doesn't make sense if you want to better yourself

😯 where will they be advertised? I wish applications for postgrad were centralised, where you applied once with your skills/cv and the ones you were shortlisted for you got an interview. Trawling through uni sites trying to find a match is time consuming.

SimonHarrisTD A bit late considering courses usually start in September and deadlines will have closed now. Unless this if for next year which would be a very bad omen.

SimonHarrisTD Excellent

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